Re: Re[2]: Hiroshima/// who cares do it agin if needed saves a lifes!

[mark sasser <duke99301@yahoo.com>]

Nuke so what a lot of good people died! 
My father was there and he shook the man hand who
dropped the bomb  it saved his life. they told him it
would take at least 25 waves to get a beach head on
japen he was  to go in on the 4th wave. 
and to say more! I made a lot of good money at hanford

a lot of good people work there.
--- Vincent King <Vincent.King@doegjpo.com> wrote:
>      Of course, now the inevitable complaint will
> arise from someone 
>      that no one else really had a chance to 'win'
> the race to build the 
>      first bomb, that the war would have ended soon
> anyway, that the 
>      U.S. really had no reason to build the bomb,
> and that by going 
>      ahead, the U.S. opened the door to the arms
> race, let the nuclear 
>      genie out of the bottle, etc. etc. 
>      
>      To build upon what Tom and Tosh have stated: 
>      
>      (1) it was wartime, and everyone did what they
> could not to lose; 
>      and 
>      
>      (2) Someone, somewhere was going to develop the
> bomb in time. Those 
>      who put this guilt trip on the U.S. ignore the
> fact that the 
>      physics of nuclear weapons have always existed.
>  The discovery of 
>      these laws and the development of the
> technology to exploit them 
>      was inevitable, if not by the U.S. in the
> 1940's, then by someone 
>      else a few years later. 
>      
>      To make the development of nuclear weapons
> someone's 'fault' seems 
>      as pointless to me as to trying to pin blame on
> the first alchemist 
>      who discovered gunpowder.  It seems we would be
> better off putting 
>      our energies into making the world rational
> enough that no one is 
>      tempted to use them (and the irrational ones
> can't get them).
>      
>      Vincent King
>      vincent.king@doegjpo.com 
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: Hiroshima observes 55th anniversary of
> bombing
> Author:  "Tosh Ushino" <tushino@icnpharm.com> at
> Internet
> Date:    8/8/00 1:12 PM
> 
> 
> In response to Tom Savin's question:
> 
> >The one question for everyone I have is that do
> they remember that Germany and
> Japan
> >during WW II were developing their own capability
> for nuclear destruction. If
> those >oppressive dictators had achieved the
> technology first what state would
> the world be in?  >Food for thought.
> 
> I recall reading an interview of Akio Morita (late
> chairman of Sony) years ago.
> He was a young engineer in the Japanese Imperial
> Navy during WW-II. He said that
> part of his job was to study US technology by
> examining the wrecked US
> aircrafts. Their conclusion was that they were
> technically on par with US. They
> just didn't have the resource to build new aircrafts
> with such technology in
> quantity. They knew about the technical feasibility
> of nuclear weapons, but had
> no resource to even begin thinking about building
> one. He said that when they
> heard of the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
> their first question was, how
> did US accumulate so much fissile uranium?
> 
> As for the second question, my father (who was a
> cadet at the Imperial Army
> Officer School in Hiroshima at the time) told me, if
> the Japanese military
> dictators had access to such a weapon, he has no
> doubt that they would have used
> it.
> 
> Tosh Ushino
> 
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